Assessment of Nutritional Status of Adolescent College Girls at Rawalpindi

Assessment of Nutritional Status of Adolescent College Girls at Rawalpindi

Dietary pattern, nutritional status, anaemia and anaemia-related knowledge in urban adolescent college girls of Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVES To examine dietary pattern and nutritional status of adolescent college girls of Dhaka, Bangladesh with a particular focus on the prevalence of anaemia and appropriate knowledge about it among them. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted. Sixty-five adolescent girls aged 15-19 years were selected randomly from Home Economics college of Dhaka. A 7-day food frequency questionn...

Polycystic ovaries in adolescent girls from Rawalpindi.

OBJECTIVES To review different clinical endocrine manifestation of polycystic ovarian syndrome in adolescent girls. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted in Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan from Nov 2001 to Oct 2002. Adolescent girls diagnosed with polycystic ovaries on ultrasound seen in the out patients department for menstrual problems were included in the study. Their body m...

Seasonal Variations in Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls

The investigation focussing on “Seasonal variations in nutritional status of adolescent girls” was carried between June 2001 to May 2002. 80 girls were selected between the age group of 13 to 15 years from rural and urban areas of Dharwad. The nutritional status of the subjects was assessed by anthropometry and dietary intake. Irrespective of locality, the selected subjects recorded higher valu...

Assessment of nutritional status of adolescent girls in an urban slum area

The term “Adolescence” represents a hyper anabolic phase of growth, mediated by normal factors and characterized by peck velocities of growth (Gopalan, 1989). Adolescents are more vulnerable to malnutrition. The aim of this study is to assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls of an urban slum area of Jaipur. This is a cross sectional study design using multistage random sampling method...